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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert
« Last post by Ela on February 07, 2024, 08:50:52 PM »Ha! Yeah, something like that.
Folks use commas inappropriately a lot.
Folks use commas inappropriately a lot.
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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert
« Last post by rivka on February 06, 2024, 04:21:47 PM »Because some people think they are meant to put a comma anywhere they would pause when speaking the sentence aloud. 
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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert
« Last post by Jonathon on February 06, 2024, 09:27:14 AM »Yeah, it's wrong. I have no idea why someone would put one there, though.
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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert
« Last post by Brinestone on February 06, 2024, 07:07:07 AM »Yes, the comma is incorrect.
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English & Linguistics / Re: Dear Expert
« Last post by Ela on February 06, 2024, 06:49:49 AM »Why on earth would someone use a comma after "include" in this sentence? (Including only the part of the sentence leading up to and after "include".)
"...pain treatment strategies during procedures for newborns and infants include, breastfeeding, skin-to-skin and..."
Am I wrong to think no comma is needed after include?
It's a quote pulled from another publication and quoted in an article I'm reviewing, so if it's wrong it was probably published wrong. Unless the article writer typed the quote incorrectly.
"...pain treatment strategies during procedures for newborns and infants include, breastfeeding, skin-to-skin and..."
Am I wrong to think no comma is needed after include?
It's a quote pulled from another publication and quoted in an article I'm reviewing, so if it's wrong it was probably published wrong. Unless the article writer typed the quote incorrectly.
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English & Linguistics / Re: The random etymology of the day
« Last post by Tante Shvester on January 15, 2024, 04:56:06 AM »Not only do "shampoo" and "shamrock" lack a common etymology, they also have nothing to do with "sham".
Nevertheless, I still prefer real rocks to shamrocks, but prefer shampoo to real poo.
Nevertheless, I still prefer real rocks to shamrocks, but prefer shampoo to real poo.
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English & Linguistics / Re: You keep on using that word
« Last post by rivka on December 26, 2023, 10:49:52 PM »There were a number of issues with the ad I just attempted to read. But "comfortability with [specific task]" was probably the most egregious.
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English & Linguistics / Medicolegal terminology
« Last post by pooka on December 24, 2023, 10:44:52 PM »A headline about paramedics being charged with killing someone got me looking at the history of "agitated delirium" and revisiting Thomas Szasz's "The Myth of Mental Illness".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Elijah_McClain#Use_of_ketamine_questioned
I think Szasz doesn't present a good example of a non mental illness, though he does discuss "problems in living". That is, he's assuming that all physical illnesses conform to Koch's postulates or something (x germ = y disorder; or w lesion = z dysfunction).
https://depts.washington.edu/psychres/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/100-Papers-in-Clinical-Psychiatry-Conceptual-issues-in-psychiatry-The-Myth-of-Mental-Illness.pdf
eta:
https://www.upstate.edu/psych/pdf/szasz/pies-on-myths-countermyths.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Elijah_McClain#Use_of_ketamine_questioned
I think Szasz doesn't present a good example of a non mental illness, though he does discuss "problems in living". That is, he's assuming that all physical illnesses conform to Koch's postulates or something (x germ = y disorder; or w lesion = z dysfunction).
https://depts.washington.edu/psychres/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/100-Papers-in-Clinical-Psychiatry-Conceptual-issues-in-psychiatry-The-Myth-of-Mental-Illness.pdf
eta:
https://www.upstate.edu/psych/pdf/szasz/pies-on-myths-countermyths.pdf
Spoiler: to look at later (click to show/hide)
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English & Linguistics / Re: PartiallyClips that are either not filthy or really really funny
« Last post by pooka on December 24, 2023, 10:21:30 PM »This link appears to work currently:
https://tapas.io/series/559/info
https://tapas.io/series/559/info
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English & Linguistics / Système International
« Last post by pooka on December 24, 2023, 10:09:57 PM »These colorful circles caught my eye... Though I can't quite recall how I wound up looking at cases... Oh, I was trying to figure out why RN preceded Re in an ostensibly alphabetical sorting of labels. And that led me to a wikipedia article about letter case. I guess in the era in which this electronic medical record software was birthed, all capital letters are capitalized before all lower case letters. And now, I finally know why we are supposed to type in caps lock by default (at this job). I knew that you had to be in caps lock to enter provider labels. What a sad revelation.
Well, anyway, my question is why mL has a capital L when it isn't derived from the name of a person.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Unit_symbols_and_prefixes_in_the_metric_system
P.S. I hope you appreciate the 3 tries it took me to type my subject title correctly.
Well, anyway, my question is why mL has a capital L when it isn't derived from the name of a person.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Unit_symbols_and_prefixes_in_the_metric_system
P.S. I hope you appreciate the 3 tries it took me to type my subject title correctly.